Yeah, no idea how people (by this I mean americans who are pro-guns) can be so narrow-minded and say that if everyone had a gun they could protect themselves if there's data from countries with stricter gun laws that clearly show that a decrease of people in possession of guns equels fewer acts of violence in which firearms were used.

Like switzerland or czechia for example? You have a mental health problem, and you have the almost single western country in the world which allows citizens to be armed as much as the police or the military. Which for democracy is a good thing

The guy said that he's not a moron for his beliefs, he was just scammed. While, imo, that's true, this guy is just a moron for not knowing basic middle school science. You can explain the tide going in and out. I'm surprised he didn't bring that up.

I’m not religious, but he probably knows what causes the tide to behave the way it does, but why does it do that? And why doesn’t it ever fail (as far as we know), that is what is attributed to ‘god’ most of the time.

This legal loophole has been heavily exploited by the Dutch fishing industry. They have lobbied to allow greater freedom to use pulse and electrical trawling gear and in 2010 they were partially successful in getting the restrictions on pulse trawling eased – a maximum of 5% of the Dutch commercial fishing fleet was allowed to use electrical fishing gear (3),. This may have seemed like a small rise but it meant a quadrupling of the number of pulse equipped vessels. In 2012, the amount of Dutch trawlers allowed to operate pulse trawls was increased to 10% of the fleet by the EU (3). This means that there are now over one hundred fishing vessels – the vast majority from the Netherlands – that have been converted into pulse trawlers despite the supposed EU ban on this type of fishing (2). Some of the conversions to transform fishing boats into pulse trawlers have even been funded by EU money (4). In a statement given to the BBC a spokesperson from the Government of the Netherlands Department of Agriculture said that the “relatively large number of participating vessels” was necessary because “the current assessment aims to investigate the long term effects of a large scale introduction of pulse fishing in the North Sea ecosystem” (5).

"It is no more difficult for a black man to apply for an ID card than it is for an Asian, white, or any other race."

Nationally, up to 25% of African-American citizens of voting age lack government-issued photo ID, compared to only 8% of whites.

Texas allows concealed weapons permits for voting, but does not accept student ID cards. Until its voter ID law was struck down, North Carolina prohibited public assistance IDs and state employee ID cards, which are disproportionately held by Black voters. And until recently, Wisconsin permitted active duty military ID cards, but prohibited Veterans Affairs ID cards for voting.

A Caltech/MIT study found that minority voters are more frequently questioned about ID than are white voters.

Several studies, including a 2014 GAO study, have found that photo ID laws have a particularly depressive effect on turnout among racial minorities and other vulnerable groups, worsening the participation gap between voters of color and whites.

ACLU infopage. Their sources are all very well cited.

You've attacked me as being gullible (and therefore should be ignored) or coming here with an agenda (and therefore should not be trusted). While I hope you would be open to hearing my perspective without attacking me, the user, I'm not some shill.

Sure, if all other things were equal, the law would not be able to discriminate. But many voter ID laws are designed with discriminatory intent after analyzing which IDs are more or less likely to be held by which racial groups so even if there was not the filter of economics, poverty, and transportation access (which there are) you would still be wrong.